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The debut release from Mondo Macabro’s American Arcana line (a sublabel dedicated to only the finest in ‘U.S. trash and genre films’ offers up a pair of seventies shockers unearthed from the vaults of the mighty Something Weird Video.

The Bushwhacker:

First up, Dan (Harvey Shain, of The Lustful Turk and The Secret Sex Lives Of Romeo And Juliet, credited as Forman Shane) is piloting his plane with a few hot chicks on board. Those hot chicks are Marueen (Barbara Kline of Henry’s Night In, credited as Acee Decee), Dawn (Merci Montello, of Erika’s Hot Summer and Space-Thing, credited as Merci Mee), and Sherry (played by… Rita Roundheels). Dan’s a lousy pilot and soon enough, the plan crashes in the middle of the vast wilds of California – but was it shot down by a crazy hermit? They’re completely unaware that this territory belongs to The Bushwhacker (Dan Martin, the director of The Big Snatch, credited as Ronny Runningboard)!

Alpha Blue Archives offers up four early seventies softcore films on one DVD – there’s really no connection between any of the four films in this collection, but some of them are pretty interesting so let’s take a look!

The Last Step Down:

The Last Step Down features no opening credits, just a production company name and a title card before it launches into a fifteen-minute scene in which two women (Uschi Digard of The Melon Affair and Neola Graef of Cries Of Ecstasy, Blows Of Death) wander into some sort of basement lair inhabited by a few monks. There's an alter setup and as the girls disrobe and lean back against it, the monks use dildos to spread some sort of ceremonial liquid on their cleavage. After that, everybody gets it on, including the head monk (a very mustachioed Michael Donovan O'Donnell).

Bloody Birthday begins in 1970 when three children – Debbie (Elizabeth Hoy), Curtis (Billy Jacoby) and Steven (Andy Freeman) - are born at the pinnacle of a lunar eclipse where the sun blocks Saturn, which is the planet that
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The first of many Stephen King adaptations to be directed by Mick Garris for the big screen and the small screen, 1992’s Sleepwalkers, the only film written specifically for the movie screen by the author (at least at the time of this writing), Sleepwalkers
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Shuichi Hirata’s animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s manga of the same name (which was first published way back in 1949), which features a screenplay from none other than Katsuhiro Otomo (the man who wrote Akira), borrows from Fritz Lang’s
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Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 interpretation of Suspiria begins when Patricia Hingle (Chloë Grace Moretz of Kick-Ass and the 2013 Carrie remake), a student of the Tanz Dance Academy in the West Berlin of 1977, pays a very panicked visit to her therapist, Josef Klemperer (played by one “Lutz Ebersdorf”).
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When Jim Douglass (Gregory Peck) comes riding up to the town of borderish town of Rio Arriba, not much is known about his purpose (unless you read the back of the box), but one thing is for sure; he's a man on one hell of a mission. He's not on the mission that the townspeople
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Directed by Eugenio Martin, 1974’s Horror Express (or, if you prefer, Panic On The Trans-Siberian Express), begins in Manchuria where an English scholar named Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) and his team discover some sort of animal-man frozen in the ice. They crate this big hairy guy up and load him onto a train
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Porno Holocaust, despite how it may sound, has no relation whatsoever to Ruggero Deodato's gut-munching masterpiece of nastiness, Cannibal Holocaust. What it is, essentially, is a series of fuck scenes linked together by a shoestring of a plot courtesy of Italian sex and gore master, Joe D'Amato (a.k.a. Arisitde Massaccesi of Beyond The Darkness) and maybe/maybe not with
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“Good Lord - I've heard about this - cat juggling! Stop! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Good. Father, could there be a God that would let this happen?”

When Carl Reiner’s film The Jerk begins, we meet Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) who, at first glance, appears to be a bum lying in a trash heap clutching a ratty old thermos. A short while later, Navin looks into the camera and explains
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Frank Capra is often held up as a preeminent example of The American Director in film history circles. A long-time Hollywood veteran he began his career during the Silent Era and progressed into the sound era, writing and/or directing a series of popular films in that time. He even picked up three Academy Awards during that stretch as
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Otto Preminger's classic 1944 Crime-Noir/Thriller/Mystery film, Laura, based on the novel by Vera Caspary, is an interesting film with an equally interesting cast of notable actors and actresses. The stunningly beautiful Gene Tierney (Oscar Nominated for Leave Her To Heaven) plays Laura Hunt, a woman who has recently been murdered by a shotgun
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Despite being blasted by Roger Ebert as misogynistic trash, I've always found 10 To Midnight to be both a compelling thriller and one of Charles Bronson's strongest late period vehicles. It boasts a fully committed performance from the star, an excellent supporting cast (Wilford Brimley is in here!), taut script and surefooted direction from
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When it was announced that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, the guys behind stoner comedies like Pineapple Express and Your Highness, were spearheading a new Halloween film, horror fans quite understandably were quite skeptical. It was hard to imagine these guys, who are admittedly quite good at comedy, would treat the series properly, even if
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